Last week, Ivan Chalif, a product manager / blogger, tapped into a thread criticising product managers for not adopting and espousing agile, or at least rapid-release techniques. In this article we look at Ivan’s comments and one of the articles that he referenced. We also share our own perspective and an alternative analysis of what may have happened.
Flashback
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Flashback: A Year Ago This Week on Tyner Blain [2006-04-14]
A look back at the best from a year ago.
Administrivia
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Updated Theme With More For You
In lieu of an article today, we’re updating our theme. There are a bunch of minor improvements, and two major ones. New visitors and regular members of the community should both benefit from the changes.
Business Analysis / Requirements / Requirements Models / Software development / Testing / Use Cases
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The Difference Between Use Cases and Test Cases
People who are new to software, requirements, or testing often ask “What’s the difference between a use case and a test case?” This article answers that question, by building on earlier articles about use cases and use case scenarios. At the soundbite level, each use case has one or more scenarios, and each use case scenario would lead to the creation of one or more test cases.
Business Process Modeling
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Free BPMN Stencils for Visio 2002
We created a series of Visio 2003 stencils last September to support our series of articles on BPMN. Anthony Britton has created a Visio 2002 version of the stencils for people who do not have Visio 2003 (or Visio 2007).
Requirements / Requirements Models / Use Cases
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What Are Use Case Scenarios?
It is easy to mix up the definitions of use case and use case scenario. A use case represents the actions that are required to enable or abandon a goal. A use case has multiple “paths” that can be taken by any user at any one time. A use case scenario is a single path through the use case. This article provides an example use case and some diagrams to help visualize the concept.
Requirements / Requirements Models / Use Cases
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Sample Use Case Example
Here’s an example of a use case that has some system complexity. The user interacts with the main system that we are describing. The system also interacts with two external systems. This use case example shows how to describe the steps that demonstrate all interactions with the system.
Flashback
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Flashback: A Year Ago This Week on Tyner Blain [2006-04-07]
A look back at the best from a year ago.
Product Management
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Four Phases of Implementation
Jacques Murphy Describes the Four Phases of Implementation – Oh Boy!, Oh Shoot!, Oh Well, Oh Wow!